coller

/\kɔ.le\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,381

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

coller is aFrenchverb. It means: Joindre et faire tenir deux choses ensemble avec de la colle. Pronounced \kɔ.le\. It ranks #6,381 in French word frequency. Often confused with coule and color.

Key facts for coller
PropertyValue
Headwordcoller
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,381
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of coller in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for coller is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,381 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 26 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for coller, with forms such as "ccoller", "cloler", and "colelr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coule", "color", "cover", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is coller, spelled C-O-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Joindre et faire tenir deux choses ensemble avec de la colle.
  2. 2
    Unir fortement des choses entre elles ou à d’autres.
  3. 3
    Enduire, imprégner de colle.
  4. 4
    Mettre dans du vin, de la gélatine ou quelque autre ingrédient, pour conserver ou rendre sa limpidité.
  5. 5
    Ajouter de la gélatine à une préparation, pour l’épaissir et lui permettre de figer lorsqu’elle a refroidi.
  6. 6
    Être très ou trop proche, adhérer.
  7. 7
    Être longtemps proche.
  8. 8
    Tenir appliqué.
  9. 9
    Fixer, regarder une chose ou quelqu’un attentivement et longtemps, en parlant du regard.
  10. 10
    Poser une question difficile, faire une objection à laquelle on ne peut répondre.
  11. 11
    Punir un élève tel que le priver de sortie.
  12. 12
    Refuser à un examen.
  13. 13
    Faire passer une colle.
  14. 14
    Placer, mettre, positionner.
  15. 15
    Donner à quelqu’un.
  16. 16
    Pousser ou placer une bille de billard de manière qu’elle s’arrête contre la bande ou très près de la bande.
  17. 17
    Mouler.
  18. 18
    Convenir, être cohérent, coïncider.
  19. 19
    S’adapter.
  20. 20
    Se tenir fortement appliqué contre une chose, etc.
  21. 21
    Se tenir constamment auprès d’une chose.
  22. 22
    Avoir une liaison hors mariage.
  23. 23
    S’astreindre à faire quelque chose.
  24. 24
    Insérer, dans un champ de saisie ou autre, un objet ou un texte préalablement copié dans un tampon logiciel souvent appelé presse-papiers.
  25. 25
    Être surpris par quelque chose, fixer quelque chose avec le regard en se perdant dans ses pensées.
  26. 26
    Mettre à côté de, adjacent à, contigu à.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccoller,cloler,colelr,coler,collerr,collre,ocller

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coller

Misspelling Variants of "coller"

ccoller7cloler6colelr6coler5collerr7collre6ocller6
Misspelling Variants of "coller"

Frequency rank: #6,381 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coller"?
"coller" is spelled C-O-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.le\.
What does "coller" mean?
As a verb, "coller" means: Joindre et faire tenir deux choses ensemble avec de la colle.
What words are commonly confused with "coller"?
"coller" is commonly confused with "coule", "color", "cover". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coller" is \kɔ.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coller" come from?
"coller" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.